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- Ukraine Unbound: Culture, Memory, Resistance
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan is proud to launch a new lecture series spotlighting Ukraine’s history, culture, and politics through conversations with leading scholars, writers, and artists.
The talks will be held in a hybrid format. Please click here to register for any or all of these events.
Curated by Alex Averbuch, Assistant Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture.
FALL 2026
Foundations: Cossacks, Modernity and the Age of Empire
Andriy Zayarnyuk (University of Winnipeg)
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 | 5:00 PM
Michigan League, Michigan Room
Ukraine: Revolution, Resistance, Democracy
Sophia Wilson (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 | 5:00 PM
Rackham, Assembly Hall
WINTER 2027
The Last Days of the Shtetl: SHTTL, Ukrainian Cinema, and Ukrainian-Jewish Memory
Olga Gershenson (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Moshe Lobel (actor, SHTTL), and Mikhail
Krutikov (University of Michigan)
Wednesday, January 27, 2027 | 5:00 PM ET
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room
The Image of Home in Wartime Ukrainian Poetry: Reimagining Myth and Memory
Oksana Lutsyshyna (award-winning author, Shevchenko National Prize laureate)
Wednesday, February 24, 2027 | 5:00 PM ET
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room
From Margin to Center: Contemporary Ukrainian Women Writers and the Making of a Critical Voice
Oleksandra Wallo (University of Kansas)
Wednesday, March 24, 2027 | 5:00 PM ET
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room
The Paradoxes of Soviet Ukrainian Modernism
Maxim Tarnawsky (University of Toronto)
Wednesday, April 14, 2027 | 5:00 PM ET
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room
